64^ WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 95. Gorgonk. 
Mollis, Coriaceous, dichotomous, with perpendicular tubular floret®' 
Pallas el. 7 ,ooph, p 203. tt. 1 30. 
Tnhabits the Mtdtterranean ■, nearly ij- foot high; brown-Tio^**' 
with long fiender branches and brown ftem. 
Sttcciisea, Round, amber-colour, dichotomous, rigid ; the ftem cover^ 
with tubercular gaping florets. 
Pallas el. Zooph. p. 200. n. 128. 
Inhabits very rare, above half a foot high, with a te^^' 
ceous Hem. 
Americana. Branched and fubdivided, the fubdivifions nearly oppoi*'^ 
deprefled with rows of fuckers on each margin : 
yellowilh, pale purple within: bone horny. 
Soland. and Ellis Coratl. p, 87. w. i i. tab, \if.fig. 3. 
Inhabits the Weft Indies: purplilh or yellowilh; refembles 
fctofa. 
Exferta. Round, with a -few alternate branches: florets alternat®’J 
8-valved; flefh covered with minute white fcal^*' 
bone brownift), horny. 
Solander and Ellis Corail. p. 87. n, iz. tab, ^$,ftg 1,2. 
Inhabits the W'ed Indies ; about a feet high : branches long, A*"” 
dcr, white: polypes with 8 tentacula, and exferted. 
Patula, Compreffcd, with fiextious fiibpinnate branches, crimfl’”' 
with 2 rows of florets each fide, each furrounded 
a whitifti ring: bone brownilh, horny. 
Solander and Ellis Corail, p, 83 . n, I 3. tab. 1^. fig. 3, 4. 
inhabits X.)\t Mediterranean. 
Ceratophyta Branched, with divaricate eredf fubdivifions each mark®^ 
with 2 furrows: florets white, in irregular ro''''*' 
fiefti purple: bone black, horny. 
» Solander and Ellis Corail, p, 81. ». 4. tab. iz. fig. 2, 3, 
Pluk. dmal. p. 102. t. 454 f. 13. Bocc. Muf. tab.p.'i. 
Pet, Case,, tab. 8. MuJ. Gottax.', t. i{ 6 ,fi, !• 
Marfi. Hift. Mar. p. 99. tab. 19. ». 83. 
Catejby Carol, 2. tab. 13. Turgot Mem. /. 23. B. 
Seha IVlufi. 3, tab 107. n. 3. Knorr Oelic, t. A. \, n.Z. . 
Inhabits the Mediterranean, Atlumtic and South American 
about a foot high ; ftejb bright purple. 
> 
With a very fimple round ftem tapering both ways: 
dufity, horny : tlelh orange-colour with 2 furro'^'® 
florets longith. 
Solander esnd EUis Cor all, /. 81. n. 3. 
